Pat Cunnane was President Barack Obama’s Senior Writer and Deputy Director of Messaging at the White House where he worked for six years in many roles, responsible for everything from traveling with the President across the country and around the world on Air Force One to writing statements, jokes, op-eds, and more in the president’s voice. Pat did nearly 100 domestic trips and traveled to nearly 20 countries with the President. He worked on the president’s appearance on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” with Jerry Seinfeld, which broke the series’ viewership records and helped garner an Emmy nomination. Pat lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Stephanie, whom he met in second grade. He now works as a writer on the TV series Designated Survivor, starring Kiefer Sutherland. Pat’s upcoming book, WEST WINGING IT: AN UNPRESIDENTIAL MEMOIR, will be out April 17, published by Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books. He has written for the New Yorker and Politico Magazine and is currently developing WEST WINGING IT for television with the Mark Gordon Company and working on feature projects. He likes golf and loves Sinbad.